

Making Mascarpone at home using Heavy Cream, Freeze dried starters and a Yogurt maker.
Mascarpone is acid-set cream cheese with high-fat content. The difference between mascarpone and yogurt cream cheese is mainly in the fat...
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How to make Paneer and Queso Blanco at home(easy recipes)
Fresh acid-set cheese is one of the easiest to make, and rennet is unnecessary. Different versions of this cheese are famous worldwide...
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Making Crème Fraîche at home using starter cultures or ready yogurt and kefir
It is famous all around Europe under different names. It is also called Crème Fraiche, Fresh Cream, Sour Cream, Crema Fresca in Spain or...
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Rennet and other coagulants when make homemade cheese
Coagulants and Rennet: Coagulants can be more than one type and are used to separate the milk into two halves-curds and whey. Naturally,...
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Milk Allergy vs. Lactose Intolerance or how much lactose can a person with lactose intolerance have?
People sometimes confuse lactose intolerance with a milk allergy, but these are completely different things caused by different...
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Junket (pudding) or Junked custard
Junket is a dairy milk-based dessert made with dairy milk (any dairy milk like goat, sheep and buffalo) and rennet.
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Why should I make cheese and other dairy products at home
Fermentation is “controlled spoilage” as different techniques speed up or slow down a particular process. Depending on the control, the...
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Brief description of the cheesemaking processes
Do you know that yogurt and kefir starters can also make cheese? But how this is posible, you might ask. The reason is that the cheese is...
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Organic milk vs. regular non-organic dairy milk
Many people wonder what organic milk is and how it differs from regular milk, as many believe that one or more of the following...
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How to make a simple fresh acid-set cheese at home
What to do when the yogurt and kefir mix separate into two halves. Sometimes your yogurt mix can separate into two halves - curds and...
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How to make homemade frozen yoghurt without an ice-cream maker + 8 top recipes
Frozen yoghurt is great for the summer or winter holidays, especially when combined with poached mulled wine pears, baked apple slices,...
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The Skim milk and traditional yogurt
Many people asked why skimmed milk and its variants are not considered authentic for making yogurt. Well, there are two reasons for this...
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